Hellenistic Portraits, McFadden 1951George H. McFadden

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Both have the same arched nose, double chin and the lines on the face are also very similar. It would almost seem that the points of similarity between the two coincide with the differences between them on the one hand, and the coin portraits on the other. Not one of these heads identified by Poulsen as Ptolemy Soter can be shown to be even a royal portrait. We conclude, [handwritten: that] therefore, at least tentatively, that the similarity between them and the coins and the plaster plaque is not such as to warrant his identification. Pfuhl in his discussion of the Copenhagen head [handwritten: 21] points [handwritten: out] that Ptolemy's portrait even on his own coinage varies quite considerably. He illustrates his contention with five coins taken from Svoronos, the British Museum Catalogue and Inhoof-Blomer [handwritten: 22 23]. The outstanding features of Ptolemy's portrait, however, remain constant throughout: the diadem over the incipient baldness of the brow, the fold of fat over the eyes, the profile of the tip of the nose as already described; the protruding chin. The length of the nose varies as Pfuhl says. It is never [handwritten: 2] acquiline although the roundness of the tip occasionally gives this impression as it does in fact in our illustration (Fig. 1). However this may be, the differences between the coin portraits in Pfuhl's illustration are considerably less than those between any one of them on the one hand, and the Copenhagen, Pergamon and Cairo heads on the other.

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Handwritten marginal notes: 'have the 21', 'points times' — not transcribed as separate text